The Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations revoke and re-enact with amendments the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1973, the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 1975 and the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 1984. The Regulations implement Council Directives No. 71/307/EEC and No 83/623/EEC relating to textile names.

These are the main changes:—

• (1) Schedule 2, which sets out names to be used in relation to certain fibres mentioned in that Schedule, is an expanded version of Schedule 2 to the 1973 Regulations. In particular, Item No. 28 now refers to “polyamide or nylon” instead of simply to nylon. (Regulation 7 and Paragraph 2 of Schedule 1);

• (2) The following Schedules are considerably expanded versions of their counterparts in the 1973 Regulations—

  • (a) Schedule 4, which sets out products which are not (except as provided in Regulation 8) subject to compulsory labelling or marking (Regulation 8 and Schedule 4); and

  • (b) Schedule 5 which sets out products in the case of which an indication of fibre content may relate to a number of products of the same type and composition (Regulation 5(12) and Schedule 5.

The 1973 Regulations are amended by the insertion of a new Regulation 2A providing that those Regulations shall not apply in relation to the supply or offering to supply of textile products which satisfy the requirements of these Regulations (Regulation 2). The amendment comes into operation on 1st March 1986 (Regulation 1(2) and Regulation 2).

The 1973 Regulations and the amending Regulations of 1975 and 1984 are revoked on 29th May 1987, the date on which all of the Regulations, except for Regulations 1, 2, 4 and 10, come into operation (Regulations 1(2) and (3) and 3).

The European Pharmacopoeia mentioned in Item No. 38 of Schedule 4 to these Regulations is printed and published by Maison Neuve, 57160 Sainte-Ruffine, France and is obtainable from the Pharmaceutical Press, 1, Lambeth High Street, London S.E.1. 7.J.N.